Gino Kalkanoglu installed a surveillance system on his home about a week ago. He says part of the reason is because he's had packages stolen from his home.

"We started to get our packages shipped to the local UPS store or to my family's home on the Northshore," Kalkanoglu said.

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He and his wife thought the theft had stopped. They had a package sent to their home Tuesday.

"As soon as it got here, it was gone," he said.

But this time his cameras were rolling. The surveillance system captured the suspect walking past his home, eyeing a package on the porch. Moments later, the suspect grabbed the newspaper and the package off the porch.

A neighbor saw the crime unfold and tried to confront the man.

Kalkanoglu was not home at the time of the incident but says his neighbor called him and told him what was going on.

"She said, 'There is a guy here that just stole your package and I went after him,'" Kalkanoglu recalls. "I'm glad she did not get hurt."

Kalkanoglu says in his case the thief got away with some coffee and a shower curtain. But he says one case of package theft in the neighborhood sent a man to the hospital.

"One of our neighbors has to get his insulin shots shipped to his house. He can't get it delivered to the UPS store because it's medical. He had to ship it to his house. It got stolen and he had to go to the emergency room because he did not have his medication."

Police say they did see a rash of package thefts around the holiday season and the beginning of the year but in the past five weeks only two cases of package theft have been reported.